Larksville Police Jail

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The Larksville Police Jail is located at 211 East State Street in Larksville, PA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Larksville Police Department.

This page will tell you information about everything a person needs to know about the Larksville Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate at the Larksville Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and much more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give information and tips you need to make the process a little less stressful. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it, and any tips or comments that might be a benefit to others would be welcome.

Larksville Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Larksville Police Jail Inmate List has information about individuals who have been arrested, which includes custody status, and schedule for visitation. You can get info about anyone who has been arrested or released within the past 24 hours. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to find their arrest information fast if you’ve got your friend or family member’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Larksville Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Larksville Police Jail includes each of these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you have to answer a bunch of questions, such as your legal name, address, birth date and contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will then be allowed to use the phone so you can contact a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be able to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to wear a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. This process takes anywhere from 10 minutes to quite a few hours. Or, simply, the quicker bail is posted, the quicker you will be released. Also, it depends on if you have a cash bond amount or if a magistrate must determine how much your bail will be. For minor offenses, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and know the date of your release, you should plan to be released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Larksville Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to give each visitor’s full name to the Larksville Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitors will be entered in the visitors log as an Authorized visit. Each visitor must provide a photo ID when visiting. Anyone that gets to visitation or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures change often, so you should call the official Larksville Police Jail at 570-714-9846 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Larksville Police Jail you have to be added to their visitation list.

Be sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visitation because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No mobile phones are allowed at Larksville Police Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is a family member of the inmate, they will have to be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If a visitor is younger than 18 years old and is not a family member of the inmate, the minor visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Sending Mail to Inmates

This is what you need to know in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Larksville Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Larksville Police Jail is always searched and inspected for contraband that might threaten the security, safety or well-being of the facility, its staff, and inmates. Inmates can only receive metered, unstamped, plain white postcards no larger than 4″ x 6″ as mail. The writing on the postcard has to be in pencil or blue or black ink. If it has a stamp on it, it will get returned. If you write in green ink, then it will get returned. If you send any other kind of mail will be returned to the sender. If there is no return address on it, then the unauthorized mail will be stored in the inmate’s locker until the inmate gets release.

Do not include any of these things in the mail that you send to an inmate: any kind of threat to jail order, any description of the manufacture of weapons, bombs, incendiary devices, or tools for escape; do not encourage or advocate any kind of violence, hate speech, or racial or ethnic supremacy. Inmates are not allowed to write to other inmates.

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Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Larksville Police Jail. This includes sending money for to spend in the commissary, sending regular mail or photos, sending money for phone calls, and even postcards.

This page covers everthing you need to know about the Larksville Police Jail to help you follow these procedures and guidelines. If you have questions, or there is something that you were looking for, but did not find, please contact us using the contact link in the site menu.

Public Records

Warrant Inquiry

If you believe you have a warrant out for your arrest, you are able to check the court records online or you are able to call the court directly. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask one of the officers. You should know that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and the date of their arrest, contact the Luzerne County jail, on the phone, in person, or find out online. An arrest is public record and these records are accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a court case file containing a docket and any documents filed in the court case. You can access court records via the internet, or at the Luzerne County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of their state citizen’s criminal background. These online databases are all linked and you can track criminal convictions from any other state. Go to courthouse and check in person, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you are able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for crimes, which include, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to Larksville Police Jail jail inmates could change, so you should check the Larksville Police Jail site when send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Larksville Police Jail

You will have your own ‘bank account’ while in jail. This money is used to purchase items from the Commissary. Family and friends can deposit money into this account for you, and any money you earn while in prison will also be deposited into your account. Outside money can be paid in to your account via a money order, cash or check. If someone sends a check or money order, make sure that they write your inmate ID on it. The maximum amount you are allowed in your account is $290 per month.

Guidelines For Sending Money To An Inmate

Before you send any money you should find out what online money transfer companies the jail your inmate is incarcerated in uses. The exact method that the Larksville Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 570-714-9846 to get the current payment method.

You may be required to be on the inmate’s visitation list in order to send them money, and be aware that they may have a limit on how much you deposit at one time, like $200-300 at a time, or a limit on how much money may be in the inmate’s account at one time.

Some of the money transfer firms being used by various facilities include JPay, MoneyGram, AccessCorrections, OffenderConnect, Touchpayonline, JailATM, WU, smartdeposit, and tigercommissary.

If an inmate has fines or are required to pay restitution then they will be subject to garnishment of their commissary/trust account. If the inmate has a garnishment, then money to pay them will be taken from the inmate’s bank account. In some cases it may be a percentage or the entire amount of the obligation, but the actual percentage depends on the circumstances. We recommend that inmates talk to the counselor at their facility and try to find out. You can also try to make an arrangement so that only a percentage of your commissary funds are taken, instead of all your funds take at one time.

Commissary

The commissary is the Larksville Police Jail store. Inmates can buy a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to use the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can buy if they have money in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as personal hygiene products such as soap, shampoo, and disposable razors for shaving. The commissary also sells other things like books and magazines, televisions and radios, playing cards, headphones, MP3 players, and electronic tablets. They also sell everything need to write home to family, friends, and loved ones: paper, envelopes, and stamps. If an inmate is indigent and cannot afford paper and stamps, the jail will provide these things to an inmate who has not had any money in their commissary account for at least 30 days.

Phone Calls & Phone Usage Policy

The only phone calls that Larksville Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Calls made in jail are a lot more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. There are certain restrictions about how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the rules, phone calls might get reduced or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The Larksville Police Jail phone number is: 570-714-9846

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they get to set the prices. The money these phone service providers make from all of the inmate phone calls are split with the facility, so there is no incentive for the jail or the counselors at the facility to show inmates or their family how to save money on inmate phone calls at the Larksville Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three things will determine how much an inmate phone call will cost: Where you are located; Where your inmate is located, What type of phone number you have.

For example, if your inmate is in federal prison, if you get a new local number then this will decrease your inmate’s phone call rate from $.21 per minute to only $.06 per minute.

For the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails learning how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com is an expert in keeping up with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on inmate phone calls. There are some circumstances where we will not be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their inmate calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Larksville Police Jail, click the link below.

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